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Streaming media

Korax offers support for streaming multimedia content through HTTP. This allows you to easily publish audio and video clips that begin playing in your web site visitors' browsers immediately.

Streaming most media content

In most cases, you can include streaming media content on your web site simply by linking directly to the media file. The web site visitor's browser will launch the appropriate player, which will play the content of the file. This is true for MP3-encoded music files, MPEG-encoded video files, Windows Media files, and other media types.

RealAudio and RealVideo clips

To set up RealAudio or RealVideo clips for streaming, create a text file with a .RAM file extension. This file contains one or more web addresses, one per line, pointing to the media clip files to be streamed. The clip files should have a .RM extension. The contents of a typical .RAM file would contain the following lines.
http://www.example.com/clip1.rm
http://www.example.com/clip2.rm
In your web page, create a link to the .RAM file.
To listen now, <a href="myRamFile.ram">click here</a>.
If a visitor with RealPlayer installed clicks the link, their browser will download the .RAM file and pass it to the player. The player will then begin streaming the media clips in the order in which they appear in the file.

More information

For detailed information on using the most popular streaming media protocols, visit these websites.